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I started trying to write when I was in second or third grade.

I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.

I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing.

It took me sixteen years to write.

I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes, and the third and fourth classes were done in a single year.

Actually, I can't remember when I was not writing.

Writing is a very easy way for me to express myself. When I was still at school, I would write for no reason other than I wanted to write.

I never thought it was unusual to write, and I've been writing or pretending to write since before I even started school.

Obviously I had gone all through high school and into college, and you don't do that not knowing how to read.